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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: EC
Title: MAD
Page Count: 52
Genre: Humor, Satire-parody
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.25 USD
Cover Date: September 1958
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Country: United States
A look at when the boating craze gets out of hand and common traffic problems and situations will apply to boating.; Parody of a reading primer, with a rather psychotic family.; Phony ads for Rancid's Deluxe Whiskey, Whammo Watchbands, Breezy of California jackets, and Aardvark Carpets, that show two different advertising approaches.; Bad tips on golfing, including giving up the game.; Questions summer camp counselors might have...but no answers.; Don sniffs (or worse) the handkerchiefs and coats before buying.; Possible modern style magazines as they would have existed in history.; Ways to punch up old tv shows by turning them into westerns.; Turning a western tv show into a Madison Avenue concept, Pallidin is hired to create an advertising campaign and when it doesn't work, forces a merger of two companies.; Parody of movie The Young Lions with twist ending involving the author of the book.; Wally interviews the man who counts down rocket launches for NASA.; Parody of Bell Telephone System ad, showing how it's fun to phone your bookie.; Fatal results from cheating at chess.; Parody of Ripley's Believe It Or Not.; A robbery goes bad when the mail carrier seems to be indestructible.; When two men finish playing a boxing game, the mechanical characters take over.; Phony ad parody of Chesterfield Cigarettes ad.